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Art and Philosophy (Hardcover)
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What is art? Can anything be art? Is there "value" or "truth" in
art, or does it all come down to "how it makes us feel"? These
questions have puzzled artists, curators, and connoiseurs as well
as the general art-appreciating public. In Art & Philosophy
author Timothy Taubes offers many insightful observations on these
and other questions surrounding the objects in which we take an
aesthetic interest. Art is the communication of ideas, and clearly
some ideas are more important than others, just as some artists are
adept at communicating their ideas and others are less capable. The
language of art is learned in much the same way one becomes
proficient in any language - through observation, application,
adaptation, and retention. However, the datum of an aesthetic
language is different from that of other communicative skills. The
aesthetic vocabulary is comprised of living equivalents to common
experiences that all humans share: i.e., transcendent ideals, such
as love, humility, and justice, which keep works of art relevant
for today. Participation in the experience of art helps us learn
something about ourselves - we enter into communion with the world.
This is the artwork's primary duty - to bridge the mysterious
externality of existence separating the spirits of human beings one
from another. Aesthetic contemplation is a learning experience: the
learning of shared properties, values, and beliefs. However, such
learning should never be compulsory: we should not feel obliged to
study and memorize definitions, explanations, and symbols. Instead,
learning acquired through art is without conscious effort; the
psyche searches through conscious reality for its spiritual roots.
Art is a livedexperience best exemplified by Greek civilization,
wherein every facet of life was an expression of the aesthetic.
Tragically, we have lost much of that lived quality in our own
aesthetic experiences. Having become rationalized and narrowly
defined, they only serve as limitations to a fuller experience of
art. But we imposed these limitations on ourselves, and only we can
remove them. Art & Philosophy assimilates the development of
Western culture (and many Eastern views as well) into our
collective lived experience as humanity approaches the twenty-first
century. How does modern art compare with its primitive
predecessors? In what sense are we still living according to the
words of the pre-Socratic philosophers, and how might modern
philosophers be leading us astray? Instead of dictating answers to
these important aesthetic questions, Taubes suggests that an
exploration of the communicative experience of art provides the
means by which we can reach our own independent conclusions.
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